Coaching leadership, team cohesion and mental toughness in sport

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By Amy Rose – u3011321 In previous blogs I have attempted to outline team cohesion, its variables and how it relates to performance. Below is a table adapted from Carron (1982) that summarises the variables and relationships within the team cohesion construct. In this blog I will look to outline a few strategies that look…

To measure peer-based leadership a set of characteristics that determine whether someone is a good, or bad, leader need to be developed. A leader has been defined by both, Watson, Connole & Kadushin (2011) and Bucci, et al (2012), as a member of a team who influences their peers towards achieving team goals. What we…

One of the hardest things about studying the idea of peer-based leadership is getting good solid research done without relying too much on questionnaires or surveys. An independent, observable set of criteria of which to study is absolutely required. The other issue with this is deciding who to study, or talk to in developing these…

Author: Harriet Gruen An analysis of the literature on coaching mental toughness has presented a clear conflict of the need to develop coaching environments which produce mentally tough athletes, against the issue of attrition rates in youth sport. In 2010, the Australian Government invested $1.2 billion into the development of athletes from grass roots sports…

By Amy Rose The previous blog outlined team cohesion and it’s relation to performance with respect to interactive athletes in an effort to give a general outline of the research and an introduction to team cohesion as a psychological construct. In this blog I’d like to introduce the variables that affect team cohesion and the…

Peer-based Leadership in sports has no set in stone definition. There are factors, however, that are common to most definitions. The idea that a leader is a member of the team who influences the team towards achieving team goals is a common one (Watson, Connole & Kadushin 2011 Bucci et al 2012). Another such factor…

Team cohesion is a frequently examined psychological construct in sport, particularly in interdependent team sports, as a measure of performance. Carron and Brawley (as cited in Halbrook, Blom, Hurley, Bell and Holden N.D; and Marcos, Miguel, Olivia and Calvo 2010) defines cohesion as a dynamic process that is reflected in part by the tendency of…